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Their given names are James, Christine, Brian and Todd--but many Chicagoans remember them best for their colorful DJ names--JVO, Electra, Sludge and Fook.
They were some of personalities manning the mics of Q101, the rock radio station that ruled the airwaves as "Chicago's Alternative" for almost two decades. In its prime, the station exposed young Chicagoans to new music both through its broadcasts and massive annual festivals and helped launch local bands including Rise Against and Fall Out Boy into the national consciousness.
"Q101 was a tastemaker--it wasn't just a popular station, it was an important station," said former Q101 host Alex Quigley. "Anyone in the rock world, or even the entertainment world that tried to appeal to anyone under 35 made sure they stopped by Q101 at some point."
But the music was silenced in 2011 after the station, officially known as WKQX-FM, was sold to Merlin Media and transformed into a news talk station in 2011. Even though he'd left the station in 2009, Ryan Manno said he was sad to see it go.
"Sometimes, it's like you don't realize what it means until its gone. There were format changes and talent coming and going, but at the end of day, it was always there---it was like a friend that was always there," Manno said.
It was that kind of nostalgia that enabled James VanOsdol ("JVO") to raise $15,000 on crowd-funding website Kickstarter so he could write a behind-the-scenes book about Q101. With that book ("We Appreciate the Enthusiasm: An Oral History of Q101") released Nov. 26, RedEye caught up with some of Q101's former disc jockeys to see what they're up to now and share some of their favorite memories.
A.K.A.: Electra
THEN: Hosted middays from 2005 to 2011.
NOW: Enrolled at Loyola studying to be a paralegal. Also does occasional voiceover work.
NOTABLE MEMORY: "I did a Last Letter Marathon for 29 straight hours, and I'm stubborn so I didn't even take a cat nap in the late-night hours when no one is listening. But it was awesome because we raised money for literacy in Chicago. It felt really good to be able to give back. Also, the time Jack White called to yell at me to play a (White Stripes) record when it leaked. It was surreal to hear Jack White on the phone, and he was angry.
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: I have a lot of favorites, but I championed Muse from the time I got there in 2005 and it was really rewarding to have listeners text me to tell me they heard Muse in other places. It's cool, when you love music and get to share it with other people, and they respond. That was my favorite part of the job.
A.K.A.: Played a character called "Ryan the Gay Mexican" on the Mancow show.
THEN: Hosted several shows from 2001 to 2009. Worked on the Mancow show starting in 2003. Moved to afternoons for "The Manno Program" with brother Kevin (2006 to 2009).
NOW: Co-host of "The Abe Kanan Show" at Sirius Radio for Howard Stern. He also hosted "JBTV," a music television show on NBC.
NOTABLE MEMORY: "I remember when the show '24' was popular, Kiefer Sutherland came in and kind of took over. That night he was drinking whiskey and went to Angels and Kings and sang with the band Jackyl. It was crazy. Q101 was such a circus sometimes. I can't believe it was a functioning office sometimes, you had midget wrestlers stapling each other and strippers and alligators in another room."
FUN FACT: Manno admits he was fired in 2009 for dissing his show's biggest advertiser, Miller Light, during an on-air blind taste test for beer. "I had said something like that (Miller Light) smelled like urine and feces."
THEN: Hosted several shows from 2003 to 2011, including "The Manno Program" with Ryan.
NOW: After a year working on a MTV show called "The Seven," he's back in Chicago wrapping up the first season as the host of a dance competition show on Lifetime called "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition." Manno's also a regular correspondent on "AXSLive" on AXS TV and LXTV's "First Look" on NBC and part-time DJ at The Mix (WTMX).
NOTABLE MEMORY: Hosting "Crash Test Radio" with Ryan. "He and I had dreamed of working at Q101 since we were kids, and not only did we achieve that dream, we were given complete control of the radio station for an entire hour every night. That felt good."
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: Rise Against. "My brother and I became friends with those guys when we were hosting a punk rock radio show in college, and I feel like we all kind of came up together."
A.K.A.: Alex Quigley "I was about the only guy who used his real name. I never really liked using fake names."
THEN: Host during two different stints--Jan. 2001 to May 2002 and Dec. 2004 to July 2009.
NOW: Assistant program director and an on-air host at 720 WGN.
CLAIM TO FAME: References to nerd culture. "I talked about Nintendo, 'Star Trek' and would make jokes and references and wouldn't care if you got it. If you got it, you were in."
NOTABLE MEMORY: Weezerama, a promotion for a secret Weezer concert in 2002. "Over the course of a week, Sludge gave geographic clues about where we were going to hand out the 500 wristbands for the show, and it was this little dog park in NIU-Hoffman Estates. Somebody got their wristbands, a car of four kids. And then the flood just hit--hundreds of cars. As I handed out the last ones, we blasted out of there--we pull out onto Route 72 and it kind of looked like the highway scene from 'The Walking Dead'--cars parked in the middle of Higgins Road, kids running across 72 and running into the woods. It was fun and totally crazy."
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: "I was all about Smashing Pumpkins. 'Mayonaise' and 'Muzzle' got played 33 times more often when I was on-air, I think."
THEN: Host for three different periods--1993 to 2000; 2006 to 2007; 2009 to 2011.
CLAIM TO FAME: Hosted Local 101, evening shows and the morning drive."
NOW: Digital marketing for restaurants; author of "We Appreciate the Enthusiasm: An Oral History of Q101."
NOTABLE MEMORY: The 1999 Jamboree music festival. "It gave my book the inspiration for its title. The Offspring had been on stage, and they encouraged the crowd to throw their trash on the stage, and it kept coming and coming. Finally, we had to announce to the crowd 'We appreciate your enthusiasm but please stop throwing trash on stage.'"
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: "It was fun to go off script and take a chance on a local band---something like Apocalypse Hoboken, P.J. Harvey or Sebadoh. Playing the less obvious stuff was the best."
A.K.A.: Sludge
THEN: Midday and afternoon host from 1999 to 2005.
NOW: Creative director and an on-air host at CBS Radio's Sportsradio WIP in Philadelphia.
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: "Born Slippy" by Underworld. "I'd never heard the song anywhere else, and with its frantic beat, it became the official 'Sludge Nation workout song.'" Other notables include "Super Bon Bon" by Soul Coughing, "Jump Around" by House Of Pain, "The Perfect Drug" by NIN, "Insane In The Membrane" by Cypress Hill.
NOTABLE MEMORIES: "The time Coach Ditka was walking by our window in the Mart, we ran after him, and he said he'd come on the air as long as we promoted his new golf shirt line, Da Coach. Or the time I sent a naked woman through the Kennedy Expressway toll plaza to pay for 101 people to go through. Or the Sludge Nation show 'Takeovers' by Radiohead, who never came into radio stations, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Or when I called the mayor's office and almost got to Mayor Daley to discuss the cock-blocking problem in the city."
A.K.A.: Fook
THEN: Hosted afternoon and evening shifts from 2001 to 2007.
NOW: Works for a morning show for KFMA, a rock radio station in Tucson, Ariz.
CLAIM TO FAME: Being arrested for protesting the city's canceling of a Radiohead show in Millennium Park because of a scheduling conflict. "I thought that was bogus, so I organized a protest. Myself and about 50 hard-core fans were going to mass-moon the Bean one cold, rainy evening in November, I think. That is, until half of the CPD showed up to arrest us on the mayor's orders. I think Mayor Daley did a fine job overall, as well as keeping the Bean's reflection backside-free."
FAVORITE SONG/BAND: Local H. "Their cover shows at the Double Door on Halloween are legend. Everything Scott Lucas does musically from rock to electronic blows me away."
NOTABLE MEMORY: "Having drinks and snacks with (Billy) Corgan and the rest of Zwan before the release of their album. Also, our Xmas Party at the W in '06 was off the chain. Many skeletons were put in closets that night. I think I'm still hungover."
THEN: Host of "The Morning Fix" from 2006-2008.
CLAIM TO FAME: "Being the host of the ill-fated and short-lived follow up to the Mancow show. A footnote in the history of Q101."
NOW: Hosting a morning show at WDTW radio in Detroit and an afternoon talk show at WMMS in Cleveland.
NOTABLE MEMORY: "Meeting my girlfriend. After our traffic person left the show, I had listeners come in and do it, and she was one of them. She thought she was auditioning for a job, but she got me instead."
Ryan Smith is a RedEye special contributor.
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Iron is an inexpensive, easy-to-cast material. It is especially used in the manufacturing of pump houses, motor blocks and other pump parts.
Cast iron is especially used in pumps in the manufacturing of pump houses, motor blocks and other pump parts that are too complicated to produce in forged steel. This causes the manufacturing costs to become too high, resulting in a non-competitive price.
In grey iron, the graphite is dispersed throughout a ferrite or pearlite matrix in the form of flakes. Fracture surfaces take on a grey appearance (hence the name!). The graphite flakes act as stress concentrators under tensile loads, making it weak and brittle in tension, but strong and ductile in compression. Grey iron is used for the construction of motor blocks because of its high vibration damping ability.
Grey iron is an inexpensive material and is relatively easy to cast with a minimal risk of shrinkage. That is why grey iron is often used for pump parts with moderate strength requirements.

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A House Like a Lotus (O'Keefe Family Chronicles #3)
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Polly O'Keefe will never forget the summer she met Max-no matter how hard she tries.
Sixteen-year-old Polly is on her way to a conference on the island of Cyprus, where she will work as a gofer. The trip was arranged by Maximiliana Horne, a rich, brilliant artist who returned a year ago with her longtime companion, Dr. Ursula Heschel, to her antebellum mansion on Benne Seed Island and became the O'Keefes' neighbor. Max and Polly formed an instant friendship and Max took over Polly's education, giving her the encouragement and confidence that her isolated upbringing had not. Polly adored Max, even idolized her, until Max betrayed her. Alone during a three-day stopover in Athens, Polly tries to figure out what went wrong with Max, to understand how Max could hurt her so much.
The arrival of Zachary Gray, a wealthy and handsome young man determined to spend all his time with Polly, only complicates her thinking as she remembers events on Benne Seed while he shows her the sights. Leaving Athens behind, Polly still cannot forgive Max and yet she is torn by the knowledge that soon she may not have the chance to, even if she wants it. In Cyprus, while preparing for the conference, Polly becomes friends with Virginia Porcher, a writer she has always admired; Omio Heno, a vibrant young man from the island of Baki; and other remarkable delegates, from whom Polly learns she is not the only one who has suffered. Then Zachary shows up and, because of his own arrogance and cowardliness, leads her into danger.
In the healing company of her new friends, Polly realizes that it is all right to have contradictory feelings about someone, and that on the other side of pain there is still love."
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Firstly I am at stage 0 in java. Well I have never been into any programming, but it seems like I need a little help to solve a task. I have been given a code and asked to incorporate it to fix an error.
here's the code -
> import java.net.*;
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> String file = URLDecoder.decode(fileElem.getAttribute("URI"), "UTF-8");
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It is a simple URL encoding issue which could be fixed by incorporating this code. But I am too dumb that I don't even know how to do it!
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The above links are to a program used to decode files. its a freeware, and the source code is too available. the particular version that works for me is 3.3.5 but unfortunately it has a URL encoding issue. The developer of that program gave me the fix to the issue and has asked me to incorporate it and fix it for myself. But I as I said I have never been into any programming, and I really don't understand anything here. But I would really appreciate it if some one will teach me how to do it step-by-step and how to fix it!
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In Farewell Remarks, Departing Trade Group Leader Seeks Ban On Collusive Bargaining By Local TV Stations
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2011 – In a farewell address to independent cable operators, American Cable Association Chairman Steve Friedman urged the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new retransmission consent rules along lines recommended by the independent cable community and within a suitable timeframe that will allow these helpful rules to influence positively thousands of TV station carriage negotiations that must be concluded by the end of the year.
"I call on the FCC to conclude the rulemaking in time for new rules to govern the next round of retransmission consent talks that begins in October," Friedman said. "This new retrans round involves the renewal of thousands of carriage contracts between ACA members and local TV stations. These so-called `negotiations' have the potential to produce more of the same: Massive threats of signal blackouts affecting millions of consumers across hundreds of our markets."
Friedman's comments came Monday in remarks to hundreds of ACA members gathered for the 6th Independent Show, an important industry forum with a public policy focus that is annually co-hosted and jointly organized by ACA and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), a Lenexa, Kansas-based group that purchases programming and equipment for U.S. cable operators.
Friedman, Chief Operating Officer of Wave Broadband, was elected ACA Chairman in 2008 and re-elected in 2010. His tenure officially concluded at ACA's third quarter Board meeting held here July 24. He will continue to serve on the ACA Board of Directors. Colleen Abdoulah, Chairwoman & CEO of WOW! Internet, Cable and Phone, was appointed ACA Chairwoman by the ACA Board.
"I'll miss the job greatly, but I believe it is time to hand the gavel to a new leader and return to my seat on the ACA Board. I know I'll be leaving the association in wonderful hands under our new Chairwoman Colleen Abdoulah. She deserves special accolades for her support in identifying the harms associated with the Comcast-NBCU merger when she testified before three U.S. Congressional Committees in 2009," Friedman said.
In his valedictory remarks, Friedman stressed the need for the FCC to confront broadcaster price fixing in retransmission consent.
"Intervention is desperately needed, requiring the FCC to ban independently owned TV stations in the same market from engaging in collusive, coordinated bargaining," Friedman said. "Forcing TV stations in the same market to bargain on their own is crucial because we know ACA members pay less for retransmission consent when they negotiate with one station at a time as opposed to two, and that the harm is further compounded when the two are affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX."
Friedman noted that the independent cable community is increasingly losing access to distant network TV signals that consumers are entitled to view on cable systems under longstanding FCC rules.
"The FCC also must stop all TV stations and the Big Four networks from using retrans as a weapon to prevent ACA members from carrying distant network signals that we have a legal right to provide under clearly defined FCC rules that go back decades," Friedman said.
Because it looms so large for independent cable operators, retransmission consent will remain a key issue for ACA in the years ahead, Friedman said.
"Retransmission consent reform has and will continue to be our number one issue and I don't expect that to change if the FCC and Congress fail to embrace a pro-consumer, pro-free market agenda. The broken and costly retrans regime affects every ACA member and their customers in profound ways, justifying ACA's time and expense in pursuing a reform agenda," Friedman said.
Away from the issue of retransmission consent reform, ACA has been playing a constructive role in helping to shape the outcome of many additional challenging issues, Friedman noted.
"We've made progress in such areas as updated set-top box rules, stable pole attachment fees, and acceptable open Internet rules. Our blossoming reputation has allowed ACA to build closer ties with state regulators like the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and gain deeper involvement with issue-specific coalitions," Friedman said.
He said he expects ACA to be deeply engaged as the FCC concludes work on reforming Universal Service and implementing the CALM Act's mandates regarding loud TV commercials.
Lastly, Friedman commending NCTC on the appointment of Rich Fickle as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
"I know that Rich will strengthen the bonds between our two organizations, especially in crafting creative solutions that will result in a constructive dialogue between cable programming suppliers and ACA members responsible for providing essential services to rural America, services such as TV Everywhere and related VOD products, and that we will build our collaborative efforts to negotiate programming agreements to the benefit of all of our mutual members," Friedman said.
Friedman also thanked interim NCTC CEO Tom Gleason for leading the organization during the leadership transition.
"A special shoutout belongs to Tom Gleason. Where would we be without his selfless devotion to the NCTC as he stepped into the void at a key time in the NCTC's life," Friedman said.
About the American Cable Association
Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 900 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7.6 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA's members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business. For more information, visit https://acaconnects.org/


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They're both recognised courses, so they would both be good enough to get jobs in many countries. If I were looking at your CV and saw a course that had a lot of classroom practice, I would be more attracted than to one with a minimal amount, which inclines me towards the second.
As an old fart, the fun element doesn't grab me greatly, and remember they are the ones who say it's fun. I've been through so many training courses that when people talk about fun, my hackles go up. Also, the purpose of training isn't to have fun, and how much fun will you have reading a manual alone at home? The job guarantee is good, though there are plenty of jobs out there- have a look at some of the job boards.
You can get most of the culture shock stuff from a copy of the Lonely Traveller or similar. Anyway, it's just learning a few no-nos and being able to adapt to different lifestyles, which from my experience is something people either have the ability to do or not. It's not that difficult anyway, and I have lived in various countries. Besides which, the internet is swarming with forums full of teachers from all over the world who can help out there.
I can't help but incline towards the NZ course as the certificate would impress me more if you sent it to me. However, I would still recomend looking into the CELTA simply because it so widely recognised- look at how many adverts use it as the standard qualificatioon of measure for a qualification, though the polytech course smacks of being very similar.


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It seems odd that no one has even mentioned the 3B+ in the bare metal forum yet so I'll be the first.
Since the change that came with the Pi 3 to put the activity LED on a virtual GPIO accessible only by using a mailbox call caused so much consternation to those trying to get started with bare metal programming, you'll be very pleased to know that on the 3B+ it has returned to a plain old GPIO pin again.
For reference the activity LED on the 3B+ is now on GPIO 29 (Broadcom numbering).
Have some blinkin fun
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my sister is a member of PETA she really likes to protect the welfare of animals!
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The horror of child abduction and murder, too disturbing for most people to contemplate for longer than it takes to recoil from a news item about it really happening somewhere, is just another jumping-off point for a crime thriller. It's a hook to explore ethical worldviews, responses and motives of perpetrators, victims and victims' loved ones, a reason to construct an intricately plotted puzzle or indulge in flamboyant sleuthing and exploitation. In Prisoners it's all of these things and a chance to reconcile strong religious faith with torture. In other words you're going to feel kind of icky when this is over.
The bare bones plot: on a cold, rainy Thanksgiving, two neighboring families (Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard) gather together to celebrate, but before the day is over the youngest daughters of both families go missing. Who's to blame? The mentally ill loner (Paul Dano) who lives alone with his aunt (Melissa Leo)? The creepy guy who hangs out in the children's clothing section of the depressing discount store (David Dastmalchian)? Or someone else? A local cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) works round the clock to piece together the mystery as the hours turn to days with no break in the case, but it's Jackman, as a desperate father who turns amateur detective/vigilante, who really goes off the deep end.
It's an anguished ordeal of a movie, its two and a half hours soaked with freezing rain, anxiety and nods to Silence of The Lambs, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and everything Michael Haneke ever did. It withholds information while it simultaneously drops confusing clues, offers up red herrings and travels down a narrative path troubling both for its ideas about torture as a way of getting accurate information (something Zero Dark Thirty danced around, too) and for its refusal to interrogate the idea that characters of deep religious faith might wholeheartedly employ brutality as a first step toward finding out the truth. The Lord's Prayer is brought out twice at important moments but is seemingly used as nothing more than a reactionary device, one of several references to a conservative brand of theology designed as an easy way for characters to be let off the hook or to explain away random acts of human evil.
It does the movie no favors, especially when otherwise there's a lot here that insists on being seen. It's quiet when other films would fill every square inch of soundtrack with music and noise; it's intentionally long and agonizing, almost daring audiences to bail; it's bone-chillingly atmospheric thanks to cinematographer Roger Deakins (Skyfall), who, among his other talents, makes driving in the rain look like the most dangerous thing a person can do to themselves; and its cast is uniformly impressive, especially the mute, disturbed Dano and the glum "bad cop" Gyllenhaal, who effectively turns down the handsome and owns the film with his gaunt, haunted stare. It's nowhere close to a happy time at the movies, nor is it the important statement on the human condition it aspires to be, but its an effectively gruesome mystery that'll make you feel the right kind of cold inside.
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Try flipping a coin fifty times. If you chart out the results, I would wager that it does not look as even as you might expect. Just because it's an equal chance of heads or tails doesn't mean you neatly get heads-heads followed by tails-tails. Instead you get seemingly bizarre - seemingly streaky - patterns of, say, fourteen heads followed by a few back and forth then sixteen tails. The probabilities aren't all that different.
So it is with most offenses. There's an imaginary equilibrium of how much we'd expect a particular offense to score against a particular defense. This is the average score if, say, Alabama played LSU a thousand times. But there's variance; each game is different. And once you look at it like that, you see how silly it can be to get too wrapped up into comparing a couple of drives back to back.
The answer with a team like Texas Tech is that they have a hell of an offense, and we can just expect them to score a lot. How they get those points, in what order, all in the first half, all in the second, is largely a function of variance, or in other words, luck.
I am reminded of all this because the game that seemed a shining example of this was Texas Tech's 31 point comeback in their bowl game against Minnesota a couple of years back. Tech was down 31 in the second half, and, after a barrage of passes from then-sophomore quarterback Graham Harrell, Tech won, and Glen Mason lost his job. As I stated:
As most of you know, Texas Tech came back from 31 down with 7 minutes to go in the third quarter to beat Minnesota. What was amazing to me, as I watched the game, was that despite the short time frame, the entire thing happened almost sleepily. The "comeback" appeared like some odd mixture of luck and manifest destiny. Minnesota did not really lose the game like most teams who give up huge comebacks do. Indeed, Minnesota should be a team designed to control second half leads: they have an impressive running game and a methodical passing game to complement it. Minnesota did not turn the ball over in the second half, and got a number of first downs. Tech did not get particularly good field position, either. The most frantic moment of the entire game was Tech's 90+ yard drive to kick a 52-year field goal, and even that still seemed surprisingly serene. . . .
There actually is an entire field of study dedicated to this idea regarding sports, investing, and other facets of life and it is called the "hot hand fallacy." (See also here, and here.) Surely we've all experienced and witnessed the "hot streak" or the "cold streak" in basketball where a shooter has a poor half and then literally can't miss in the second. We see the swing in momentum, the crowd cheering or silenced, the shooter's swagger, his confidence, his teammates feeding him the ball, and his confidence to shoot it from anywhere on the court with a hand in his face.
Except that is an illusion. At least according to researchers Gillovich, Vallone, and Tversky: If you're a 40% field goal shooter for the season, you're pretty much a 40% shooter all the time, even if in one game you shot 20-22 and another 1-15. It evens out over time. The difference is just chance.
This same logic applies to football, and to no offense in football more than Texas Tech's. Clearly, over the last several years Tech's offense has been one of the most productive in football. It's been well documented that Leach's offense often sputters for a quarter or two before exploding to score points at an almost ridiculous pace. So maybe the comeback wasn't such an aberration. 44 points is not so abnormal for them--what's the difference if they had scored those touchdowns on every other drive over the course of the entire game, rather than scoring them all in the second half?
I did note an exception to this, though. Not all football teams or quarterbacks act like coins; sometimes they can get rattled, and the probabilities can change on the basis of perceived adversity. The "human coin" would be someone like Michael Jordan. He's shot millions of free-throws, and he was not going to be rattled. If he missed five free-throws in a row, it wasn't because he was rattled, it was because that's how the coin flip turned out (though it was a stacked coin, with 90% heads and 10% tails).
But with young players, they might let it get to them. I noted this with Harrell in that game: he was but a sophomore then, but he had a full-season under his belt. Had he not, I do not think he would have had the confidence to keep the probabilities the same. Flash forward to now. Last second drives against Texas, falling behind early against Oklahoma State. Not an issue. Harrell's just out there coolly flipping his coins. I will end with what I said about the end of that comeback game, which has renewed relevance now.
The upshot of all this is simply that, particularly from an offensive standpoint, you practice to remove emotion and to remove the hot hand effect. You want to be Michael Jordan looking at the game winning free throw like it is just the 156th free throw after a routine practice. I think what made Leach come to tears after the game is that everyone on the team - coaches, player, fans - went about their business as usual. Tech didn't come back by launching hail marys, running trick plays, grabbing turnovers, or even really getting lucky breaks. Everyone bought into the system and the program, did their job, played smart football, and performed.
I think what brought Leach to tears was the realization that, for young kids in a hyperbolic football world, sometimes it's brave and valiant simply to do your job.
* As a final note, sorry for all being all Texas Tech all-the-time recently, but (a) I've been acutely familiar with Leach (once had a long conversation with him about applying the pythagorean theorem to calculate how long a QB's throw was) and that offense for over a decade, so it's nice for me to see their success, and (b) their past two prime-time games have really been the only football I've been able to see recently. In any event, there might be a bit of a delay before my next post, because I'm working on some more detailed substantive posts - or as Orson Swindle likes to call them, my "coach porn" articles - about Florida's offense along with a couple of passing concepts in vogue right now. So stay tuned for those.


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While the feds struggle with their own assessment of the chemical, several states enact bans.
Andy Kim is a former GOVERNING staff writer. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin's School of Journalism, he has also worked in advertising as a copywriter.
While the feds struggle with their own assessment of the chemical, several states enact bans.
More states are allowing patrons to bring guns into bars, but what effect will the laws actually have?
To increase visitor traffic to downtown Scottsdale, Ariz., the city is adding a route to the city's trolley system to shuttle hotel and resort-dwelling tourists downtown.
Some students from low-income families in Missouri will continue to receive meal-assistance during summer vacation this year thanks to a statewide food-security program.
A model agreement between state chief information officers, attorneys general and Facebook addresses legal concerns state and local governments may have regarding social media use.
One correctional facility in Michigan is partnering with a local animal shelter to have inmates help develop shelter dogs into adoption-ready companions.
A dozen cab drivers in the Big Apple are getting bulletproof vests in an experiment to keep them safe during late-night shifts.
Now more than ever, state and local governments' programs only stay alive if they've proven themselves to be effective. But how do you really know a program is effective?
An international design contest is calling teams of architects, engineers and ecologists to develop highway overpasses to increase the safety of wildlife and motorists.
In an effort to combat rising teen birthrates, Texas implemented two programs to show and teach students the real-life responsibilities that come with teen pregnancy.
Quincy, Mass., is expanding a pilot program this winter that pays snow-removal companies for the amount of snow they remove, not the hours they work.
One Montana county has been implementing a pilot program that enforces two breathalyzer tests a day for repeat DUI offenders to keep them sober.
A nationwide pilot program is set to increase the amount of classroom experience student teachers receive in education programs.
Manhattan is implementing a pilot program that will allow for the recovery of organs from individuals who die outside of hospital settings.
Legislators face opposition in passing school bus seat belt laws, but support is growing.
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The White Mountain Stewardship Project creates an unlikely partnership between conservationists and loggers in Arizona to dampen the dangers of wildfires while stimulating the local economy.
Schools and municipalities across the country are implementing wireless devices that keep students and participants engaged and facilitate feedback.
What changes do we have to make to our food regulation methods to prevent future large-scale food contamination outbreaks?
A community wellness grant is helping Erie County, N.Y., launch a program that will help locally owned restaurants research and post detailed nutrition information.
The Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community in Pittsfield, Mass., is giving homeless veterans something that, to many, seemed almost impossible: owning a home.
A USDA grant is funding a study that will measure and compare the levels of greenhouse gas emissions from conventional and organic dairy farms.
The rural town of Adrian, Minn., opened a telepharmacy to continue conveniently serving the needs of its community after its local pharmacy closed down.
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Missouri's Riverview Gardens School District is testing a program that suspends misbehaving students, but keeps them in school.
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A federal grant is helping fund a project that will look for ways to turn unwanted, invasive plant species along the Missouri River Basin into biofuel.
NYC's Department of Transportation is test-running a car-sharing program that's estimated to save the city over half a million dollars in fleet maintenance costs over four years.
To the extermination industry, bedbugs are as good as gold. But what effects could these little blood-suckers have on retail centers?
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A recently released study by Vanderbilt University on performance-based pay for teachers showed bonus pay alone was not enough to affect student test scores. So what now?
As a part of a nationwide electric vehicle infrastructure project, Knoxville, Tenn., will soon host about 350 public charging stations for electric vehicles.
Counties in California are setting up drop-off locations for excess paint; saving communities thousands in hazardous waste disposal costs.
The NYC bedbug epidemic is still going strong. What can be done to help people avoid the sleep-stealing parasites in New York and in other cities?
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A pilot program in South Carolina prepares high school students to take a certification test and become active firefighters as soon as they turn 18.
Emergency response teams need to upgrade the ways they communicate with each other and the public. But what's the best way to do so?
Columbia, S.C., is converting residents' used cooking oil, grease and fat into biodiesel to fuel city trash trucks.
A program in Cleveland, Ohio, uses plywood – painted to resemble doors and windows – to keep abandoned houses free of vandals and drifters.
The Houston Independent School District will soon hand out cash incentives to parents for being more involved in their child's education.
Trash and recycling carts, embedded with radio frequency ID chips, will keep track of how often residents put their recycling cart out for collection.
In hopes of achieving long-term savings on obesity-related health-care costs, South Carolina is going to spend $2.4 million on bariatric surgeries for state workers.
A program in New Hampshire allows employers and unemployed workers to test their compatibility with each other before committing to an official job.
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This summer, people in the Big Apple will be diving into Dumpsters – not to rummage through trash, but to escape the summer heat.
Some MLB players and fans opposed to Arizona's immigration law are protesting against having the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix. Come next year, how much will all of this matter?
To save money and time, the Big Apple is encouraging delivery companies and businesses to shift their freight deliveries to off-peak hours.
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Findings on Chicago's first year with a pilot teacher evaluation system include more consistent evaluations and more low-performing teachers.
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National Coloring Book Day : something for everyone to relax, color and enjoy
Here we are in the heat of the summer, and National Coloring Day is right upon us! We like to celebrate all week! No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's a refreshing treat to dig into those crayons, colored pencils, markers or your favorite media and do some art. When you get involved and sail into that coloring 'zone' your troubles just drift away. If you need a little help getting ideas or getting started -- or if you've got some bored kids on your hands, have at any of these free samples! August 1, 2017


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Description: It's funny how there is so many different anime/manga shows and series out there that you never know about until either you stumble upon them, or was told about a series by a friend. That is the case with this next character that I am about to submit. I recently received a request to do a certain anime character from the series "Blood Plus" or "Blood +". At first I was like, hmm... I never even heard of this anime before, which means I had to do a little research on it. After reading what the story was about I was instantly intrigued. Needless to say, I am about to submit a lesson that will show you "how to draw Saya from Blood Plus step by step" who is the main character of the novel, and anime series. Saya is a young teenaged girl who was adopted by a man named Joel Goldschmidt. The actual way that Joel came across Saya was through the findings of two cocoons that was taken from the abdomen of a "chiropteran mummy" that was found in Iceland. The creature was known as SAYA, and from the two pod like cocoons Joel decided that an experiment would be the best way to determine what exactly these creatures are. From the cocoon two twin girls were born, Saya and Diva. Saya and Diva are Queens of their species which are of course chiropterans. Each generation twins are born, and out of those twins there is a good version and a bad version. The bad version is always gonna be the enemy of the other sister which is how the antagonists of the series is created. Saya Otonashi is what you call the protagonist of the story and her character was born in 1833. Now just because she is the "good guy" doesn't mean she does good things. I mean after all she needs to feed on the blood of others even though she is destined to kill other chiropterans including her twin sister Diva. Along with Saya, Kai and Riku help her on her quests as they are also her adoptive brothers. Another person she trusts fully is her chaevalier Hagi, and her protector David. David is from the organization "Red Shield". Of course there is more to the story which I am still unfamiliar with. I am taking it slow so I can follow the series in detail because to me it sounds a little like the video game "Parasite Eve". Well all I can do for you kiddies now is stumble out of here and leave you to this tutorial on "how to draw Saya step by step". I will be back like always because I still have five more lessons to submit. The last two will be the hardest because one is on something military, and the other is something from music history If you want to read more on this anime series you can visit the official Blood Plus website to do so. Well, peace out peeps and happy drawing!


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2013--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend its regulations to allow, under certain conditions, the importation of fresh beef from specific Brazilian states. Earlier in the week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply (MAPA) issued a joint statement affirming their mutual commitment to science-based rulemaking and announcing both countries agreed to a path forward to address rules that currently limit bilateral beef trade.
The proposed regulation changes would allow the importation of chilled or frozen beef while continuing to protect the United States from an introduction of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
Based on a risk assessment and series of site visits, APHIS concluded that Brazil has the veterinary infrastructure in place to detect and effectively eradicate an FMD outbreak if necessary. And, imported beef would be subject to regulations that would mitigate the risk of FMD introduction, including movement restrictions, inspections, removal of potentially affected parts and a maturation process. Prior to actual importation of beef from these Brazilian states, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service must also determine Brazil as eligible to export fresh/frozen beef products after a final regulation by APHIS has been published.
FMD is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals that is only rarely transmitted to humans. APHIS has a strong system in place for detecting and responding to outbreaks of foreign animal diseases, including FMD, and places restrictions on affected regions to protect against the introduction of diseases of concern. All imported meat and meat products must follow USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service regulations for food safety and labeling.
This action is expected to be published in the December 23, 2013 Federal Register. Consideration will be given to comments received on or before February 21, 2014. You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis paid a heartfelt tribute Friday to his predecessor Benedict XVI, saying his faith and teaching had "enriched and invigorated" the Catholic Church and would remain its spiritual patrimony forever.
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Speaking at times off the cuff, Francis said Benedict had "lit a flame in the depths of our hearts that will continue to burn because it is fueled by his prayers that will support the church on its missionary path."
Francis, 76, tripped when he greeted the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, at the start of the audience, but he recovered immediately.
Francis has said he wants to visit Benedict at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, where he has been living since he resigned Feb. 28, becoming the first pope in 600 years to step down. No date has been set for the visit. Francis is due to be installed as pope officially on Tuesday.
In his remarks, Francis also noted that a good half of the cardinals in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace were elderly, and he urged them to share the wisdom of their years with the young.
"Let us give this wisdom to young people; like good wine, it becomes better with age," he said. "Let us give to young people the wisdom of life."


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The current work being conducted in the Stuttering and Fluency Laboratory is the Childhood Stuttering Evaluation Project. The goal of the project is to understand the nature of stuttering in young children, by documenting its episodic occurrence, discover risk factors, and understand how it recovers or develops in different ways. Children who participate in the project will receive a comprehensive speech-language evaluation and consultation with a fluency specialist free of charge, as well as free follow-up evaluations for a period of up to three years.


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Just back from conducting several career strategy seminars, I've found that while some people are finding work, some aren't. Besides the personal frustration of not finding work, the job seekers also feel the pressure from their spouses which, they tell me, hurts rather than helps. It is a hard business. But the fact is that a successful job search requires far more work than anyone expects. Looking for a full-time job is a full-time job in itself.
Let's start with the basics.
1. Your Resume:
Yes, you have to have one even though it alone won't get you a job. Your job objective, if you write one, must match exactly the job description for which you're applying. It must match word for word. Let me repeat—word for word. If it doesn't, no one will read further.
In your professional experience section, you have to cite specifics. For example, don't list just sales, but include numbers of items sold and describe how you personally increased sales. Detail other areas where you excelled—whether it was client liaison, product education, promotional efforts, or team collaboration.
Unless you've been a president, cut your resume down to one page. Remove the fillers. Reduce all your educational information so that each degree takes up only one line. Don't list your hobbies unless they are particularly impressive or relevant. Remember, your resume is meant to keep you from being eliminated as a potential candidate for the interview, not to serve as a conversation starter.
2. Your Cover Letter:
Yes, it's good to have a cover letter, even if it's not asked for. Its purpose is to make meaning out of your resume, an inherently boring document. While you don't repeat everything, you do have to say why you are qualified for the job given your experience and education. One technical candidate charted his experience to the job's specifications-- a creative and brilliant way to make his cover letter stand out. Don't be modest; this is the perfect place to tell how talented and qualified you are and what you will bring to the organization.
You absolutely must have someone highly literate proof and edit your cover letter and your resume for you so to make them perfect because any misspellings or grammatical errors will disqualify you. Neatness counts big time, especially when your goal is to land the interview.
3. Marketing Yourself:
Don't just submit your resume and letters virtually expecting someone to contact you. Yes, you have to do that, but there's more to it. Use your personal and business networks to set up face-to-face meetings or, at the least, phone conversations. Also, look for good stories written by and about successful people and contact them, complimenting them and asking them for leads. Even if people aren't initially forthcoming, don't give up. Ask them what they would do if they were in your shoes: who should you be talking to or what should you be going after. Who knows? It might just jumpstart a lead.
Put yourself out there by calling at least five people a day and trying to land two or more meetings a week. If you don't know anyone to reach out to, start meeting people in all the right places including networking meetings. Keep a log of whom you've talked to and what you discussed. Keep your promises. Call back with questions and progress and give thanks. Always give thanks.
Rehearse yourself before an interview. Expect that you'll be asked about your experience, so be prepared to discuss why they should consider hiring you, what talents and skills you have to bear, how you've handled difficult situations before, what happened to end your last job, and what excellence your bring. In short, they want to know if you'll be a trusted contributor. Practice making yourself likeable too, and look for common bonds to build on. People hire people they like and people who are like them.
4. Your Support Team:
Don't depend only on your family or close friends to be your prime source of support because sometimes their own needs can be distracting. It's up to you to find others who can help you, people who are already working and can give you tips, and people who aren't so that you can encourage each other's searching. Read books about job hunting and about people's success, and emulate them. Check in with a career coach. Don't get discouraged if it takes awhile; it's normal for the search go on for at least three months.
5. What To Do Along The Way:
Read about your field either online or at the library. You'll need good things to talk about and who knows who you'll meet along the way. Give up complaining-- it's a losing game. Instead, make yourself win at something else while you're job hunting. Make a quilt; learn bridge; walk an extra mile; plant an herb garden.
6. If You Don't Find The Perfect Fit:
Take a job even if you think it's below you and work your way up. Find meaning by noticing what needs to be done and doing it.
The Department of Labor reports that we are up to 12 to 15 career changes in our lifetimes. We better get moving.
Make your luck happen!
Adele Scheele, PhD
Career Coach and Change Strategist
Speaker and author of Skills for Success and Launch Your Career in College


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Bonding Sheet Metal to Baltic Birch6/17
I've got to laminate 24 gauge sheet steel to baltic birch for a pair of Thermador refrigerator panels. Customer wants magnetic and blackboard. A buddy will cut the panels to size (including ice maker cutout) on a water jet. Testing with a few 12 x 12 pieces, to see what will hold up - especially with the water jet. So here's what I'm going to test:
- Titebond II (Amazingly, this is what Franklin suggested)
- Wilsonart red contact adhesive
- Polyurethane (Gorilla) glue
Obviously, I need it to bond perfectly and flat, as in the attached pic from a Chipotle table.
Anyone got another product I should test? I'm iffy on epoxy for this application. I have access to a 5 x 9, 20 ton press.
Thanks in advance.
Out of the glues that you have listed there the polyurethane glue would likely be the best.
I was hoping you'd see this Leo. I am in school at night in addition to working my usual 60, so I lurk more than I participate, but I always appreciate your perspective. Testing starts tomorrow.
Thanks very much.
The Gorilla Glue will likely work best, even better if you scuff the metal with 40 grit sandpaper to give it some tooth. We've done this with aluminum panels and it works great.
Hey Craig Thanks for the response!
Ive done some testing, and have found Gorilla brand glue excellent. Interestingly - the Franklin guy was right - Titebond works, as well.
Testing ends tomorrow, and I'll post results later.
Question: I have found that I really need to clamp (press) the steel so that it lays perfectly flat on the substrate. Pressing won't work with epoxy (although one guy suggested using nylon screen material to keep the steel x-mils off the plywood a bit). Do you press your Gorilla glue projects?
Thanks again for the input, Craig.
Karl, yes I press all my Gorilla glue projects and my epoxy ones as well. You can turn down the pressure on your vacuum pump for the epoxy gluings (you might need to modify your pump and put in a valve between the bag and the pump to bleed off pressure).
You do want to make sure whatever your pressing the metal onto is smooth as well as the platen in the press (no stray bits of dried glue, etc) or they'll damage the metal and you'll be doing it over. You could use just a sheet of 1/4" mdf against the metal to be sure though.
Good luck,
So testing is done. I've bonded the steel to 3/4 D3 Maple (Columbia) with Titebond II, Loctite Polyurethane, Gorilla, and Wilsonart (Red) contact cement. Over 4 days, I've rotated them from freezer to hot sun several times. No delam on any of them. I'm taking them to the water jet tomorrow, and see if the centers of these 12x12 panels are stuck as fast as the edges.
I'm pretty sure I'm going with Gorilla glue - mostly because I need to use a product I can press hard. We'll see.
Thanks again for the input, Craig.
So I've been contacted to post results. Here they are:
I had said that I was going to use a friends 40 ton press instead of a vac-bag, because I was concerned about little kinks in the steel not lying down properly. Little did I know....
I stacked my steel and plywood sheets in the truck, finding they were too long for the bed. No biggie, I thought, just going down the road. When I got to my buddies shop, the bed was empty. I frantically backtracked - no steel, no plywood. Then I noticed a group of framers who were working near my shop, and lo and behold was my pile, which they had rescued from the road after it slid out. It was dented a bit from having been run over once or twice, but I didn't have time to run and get another sheet.
So I really need a bunch of pressure on it, to iron everything out. Ha!!
Anyway, so I ended up using Gorilla glue, although all the glues performed fine - even Titebond II. I used Gorilla because they were the only manufacturer who told me their product was specifically formulated for dissimilar glue-ups like this.
Rough plywood with 80 grit, steel with 30 grit.
Trowel glue on wood. Trowel made from plastic laminate, notched 1/16 deep on bandsaw.
Mist water on steel.
Sandwich lamination between two sheets of 3/4 particle board (nova ply).
Press overnight (I'm sorry, I cannot remember what the poundage was set to)
The press flattened all the kinks and dents from my "accident". I was able to bondo a couple of deep scratches since they were at the bottom and wouldn't affect the magnet.
Its been 6 months now. Although I haven't seen it, the customer would surely let me know if there was a problem - and I am scheduled to do their kitchen cabinets some time in the spring.
JUST TO SAY I ENJOYED THE thread - client interested in copper kitchen cabinets so i was looking it up... glad it all worked out ;-)


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Ever wish classics of literature could be condensed into 17 syllables? Here's your chance. Take a classic of literature — ancient, Shakespeare, whatever comes to mind — and write it in haiku form. You can add yours by responding to this message, or you can e-mail me at email@example.com.
Here's one attempt:
The Iliad
Trojan war drags on
Achilles smites young Hector
— then he spites the gods
And here's another try:
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman
I am everything
Everything is in me, too
— just one blade of grass
UPDATE: A few co-workers have also submitted their takes. Here they are:
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
Never take candy
from strangers, and for
God's sake, listen to lions.
– Naomi Seldin
Catcher in the Rye
Kicked out of Pencey
Punched in the gut by Maurice
Holden's in the rye
– Michael Jarboe
On The Road
Dean's really stoked up
Across the country they go
Like jets on bennies.
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The world's top two golfers, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, both missed the cut in their first tournament of the season at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship on Friday.
McIlroy finished well outside the cut line, while playing partner Woods appeared to have squeezed into the weekend before he was hit with a two-stroke penalty for a rules infringement that sunk his challenge.
By the time the dust had settled, England's Justin Rose was the leader at the halfway stage at eight under par after a 69, with rising Danish star Thorbjorn Olesen (69), Jamie Donaldson of Wales (70) and Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (67) all a further stroke back.
But it was the astonishing double demise of McIlroy and Woods that was the story of the day.
Playing for the first time in competition with his new Nike clubs after signing a mega-money, long-term deal with the US sportswear giant, the 23-year-old McIlroy clearly failed to get the hang of his new sticks.
Starting the day well down the field after an opening 75, McIlroy had three straight pars but that failed to steady his ship and three bogeys in the next four holes sent him spiralling to six over, well outside the projected cut line.
He birdied eight and nine to pick up some hope, but bogeys at the 10th and 14th all but sealed his fate in a tournament where he was runner-up last year with his old Titleist clubs.
Another wild drive into desert scrub at the last summed up his day as he eventually came in with another 75, which left him tied for 99th position and with no hope of making it through to the weekend.
The last cut McIlroy missed was at the US Open in San Francisco last June, which ended a run of three missed cuts in four tournaments.
It was shortly after that that his game suddenly picked up again and he went on to win the USPGA title at Kiawah and the money lists on both sides of the Atlantic.
"I knew it was going to be a tough week with everything going on, but I was just looking forward to getting to the golf course and getting back to what I do and what I am comfortable with," a clearly frustrated McIlroy said.
"It just didn't work out like that."
Playing partner and Nike stablemate Woods also struggled to find his game as he bogeyed four of the first five holes.
But the 37-year-old world No.2 produced a battling back nine with three birdies in a row from the 14th to get back to level par. A bogey after another wild drive at the 17th popped him over par, but he shot regulation on the last to come in with a 73.
That left him at one over for the tournament, with the cut projected at two over. But it was then announced that he had been hit by a two-stroke penalty for a rules infringement in sand at the fifth hole, turning a five into a seven.
That was enough to seal his fate.
"It's tough because I didn't get off to a very good start today and I fought and got it back," he said of the penalty stroke drama.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Shanghai Night Net.


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Herschel and Planck Programme Manager: An interview with Thomas Passvogel
What inspired you to begin a career in space engineering?
I've been fascinated by space and astronomy since my final years in school, and as a student of theoretical physics, I never lost touch with astronomy. After completing my PhD, I had the opportunity to work in industry, developing a satellite for ESA and really enjoyed it. I grabbed the chance to join ESA and continue working on satellite development. I still very much enjoy this work!
You're in the unique position of having managed two projects, simultaneously, that will perform very different science. How has that been?
Like having twins [smiles].
We've had technical challenges and difficulties on both, and like with twins, when one gets sick, you're nervous that the second will get infected. It was an exciting time with the unequal twins, with a lot of technical challenges and adventures, but now they've grown up and are ready to go their own way.
What special challenges did you face while managing these two missions?
The challenges were actually quite 'normal', as with one satellite, just about twice as many. But one unique challenge was synchronising the development, and we managed this with a lot of help from all the engineers and scientists involved.
What were some of the key moments during development?
One fundamental and exciting milestone was when Herschel and Planck were combined into one programme. It started with the fact that Herschel was a bit too light to fill the entire launcher and there was another mission that was also headed to the second Lagrange point. Today you can see the result of this simple coincidence: two beautiful satellites ready to launch together.
Other times were when the satellites were first assembled, the first time Herschel's cryostat was filled with Helium, when we carried out optical tests of the telescopes at cryogenic temperatures, and seeing that the cryogenic test on Planck really worked — the entire satellite was cooled to –230°C!
In the events around launch, when will your heart beat at its fastest?
Probably just before launch, when all that can be done has been done and one can just wait and watch. After launch, it will take about half an hour before the satellites separate, and that will probably be one of the longest half-hours of my life.
Thomas Passvogel
Born: 18 December 1955, Hamburg, Germany
Thomas attended school in Germany and obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Hamburg in 1985.
In 1985, Thomas joined Astrium at Ottobrunn, Germany (then Messerschmidt Boelkow Blohm), to work on the development of the payload module of the Infrared Space Observatory. He held various positions during his time there: Study Manager, Instrument Interface Engineer, Payload Module Integration and Verification Manager, and payload module Project Manager.
Already at this time, Thomas was involved in early feasibility studies for the Herschel mission.
He joined ESA in 1996 as Payload Systems Manager for Herschel, the mission was named FIRST back then, and has been the Programme Manager for Herschel and Planck since 2000.
Thomas is married with four sons.


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Liverpool edge Swansea in 7 goal thriller
Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson scored two goals apiece as Liverpool registered...
Jordan Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score to help the Vanderbilt Commodores beat the NorthCarolina State Wolfpack, 38-24, in the Music City Bowl.
Vanderbilt finished with only 225 yards of total offense, but its defense
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Sometimes, when you work hard enough, everything just falls into place.
Just ask Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-18 (2W-1L-0D).
With a berth in the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) Final Eight on the line, Whitecaps FC rose to the occasion bright and early Thursday morning, defeating Texans SC Houston (0W-3L-0D) 2-0 in their final fixture in the round of 32.
A few fields over, Weston FC (2W-1L-0D) upset Pateadores (2W-1L-0D) with a surprising 4-0 victory, putting both teams in a tie with the Whitecaps atop Group 2 with six points apiece.
Fortunately for the 'Caps, with a goal differential of +5, they hold the tiebreaker and will therefore move on to the USSDA Finals Week July 16-23 at the newly built BBVA Compass Stadium, home of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo.
"It was a fantastic result for the boys and a fantastic result for the club," Whitecaps FC first team assistant coach Paul Ritchie told whitecapsfc.com. "We made the finals, and that's the main reason we were here. I'm so proud of the boys. They certainly deserve it."
It just seemed like everything was going Vancouver's way Thursday morning in Frisco, Texas, as the young 'Caps opened the scoring just six minutes into the match.
After a goal-mouth scramble in front of the Texans net, the loose ball popped up to midfielder Ben McKendry who headed home the rebound to give the 'Caps an early advantage. It was McKendry's third goal of the postseason, having scored in each of the team's three contests this week.
There's no doubt McKendry's marker set the tone for the match and gave the 'Caps the confidence they needed to settle in and play their game.
Looking to double their lead and take a stranglehold on this important Group 2 affair, the 'Caps seemed to shift to another gear around the 10-minute mark after goalkeeper Callum Irving made a nice save off a Texans corner.
Midfielder Ben Fisk, who was pulled down in the box just minutes later, was dangerous around the Texans final third, as was striker Yassin Essa, but neither could find the back of the net as the 'Caps took their 1-0 lead into the half.
The 'Caps continued to dictate the tempo in the second half and with the Texans pushing numbers forward looking for an equalizer, they doubled their lead in the 65th minute off a quick counterattack.
After Essa received the heads-up goal kick from Irving, he crossed it to the back post where striker Sadi Jalali took a touch to beat his defender before finishing to give the 'Caps a 2-0 lead — a lead they would hold onto to secure a berth in next month's USSDA Academy Finals Week.
Advancing to the national championship is no doubt one of the Residency program's greatest accomplishments to date. This becomes even truer when you consider the 'Caps are the lone Canadian club in the USSDA, which is America's premier youth academy system.
"They worked very hard all year. It's been a long season for them," Residency assistant coach Martin Nash told whitecapsfc.com. "It's brilliant to have a team that the club invests so much interest in to be successful. But the boys don't want to stop here, they want to go and try to win it all."
Just as Ritchie said, "now the hard work begins again."
Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency
Callum Irving; Declan Rodriguez, Tim Hickson (Jason van Blerk '80), Daniel Stanese, Adam Polakiewicz; Ben McKendry, Alex Rowley, Bryce Alderson (Carlos Patino '78); Ben Fisk (Spencer De Boice '70), Carlos Marquez (Sadi Jalali '45), Yassin Essa (Wesley Cain '65)


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Theme & Variations Plate No. 47 Gold
Decorative porcelain wall plate from the Theme & Variations series by Piero Fornasetti. This porcelain plate is part of the T&V series inspired by the image of an enigmatic beauty found in an old French magazine, operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri, which Italian artist, Piero Fornasetti, reinvented into a multitude of motifs. It began as a series of six white plates decorated with black and white designs. It continued spontaneously and increased in the course of the years until the series reached 350 different variations on the theme of the classic beauty.
- From the Theme & Variations Collection
- 10″/25cm diameter (approximately).
- Porcelain.
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HOUSTON — Many times when you look forward to something for a while it does not quite live up to expectations.
The Houston Dynamo players and fans have been looking forward to the opening of BBVA Compass Stadium for nearly six years. That includes 15-plus months of construction.
WATCH: Full Match Highlights
But on Saturday, everything went as planned as the Houston Dynamo delivered a 1-0 win over D.C. United to usher in a stadium they can truly call their home.
"I didn't sleep so well the last couple of nights and it had nothing to do with the storm," said head coach Dominic Kinnear after the 1-0 victory. "We've been waiting for this for such a long time. I didn't have any expectations. All mine were wants today. You want to win. … It was just all wants and what I wanted today was, thankfully, granted."
The play on the field and a big goal from Brad Davis set the scene, but the fans took a star turn. The sold-out crowd was loud throughout the match and accentuated big moments with applause. When the goal came, the noise that arose proved memorable.
"I knew the crowd was going to be good having the game played the other night," Kinnear said. "I was kind of waiting for the sound of the crowd and the roar after a goal. I do remember that and I don't remember that very often. I do remember when Brad scored and just hearing the crowd was wonderful."
With things falling into place everyone on the Dynamo side was treated to a pay off that did in fact live up to the hype.
"It was a great feeling and a great day for our fans, team and organization," said Davis who notched the game-winner. "Very happy and very proud of the guys and looking forward to more wins here."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.
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Suppose one has in hand an infinite sequence $s$ of distinct natural numbers, for example,
$$s=s_1=(1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,\ldots) \;.$$
So this sequence can be considered an injection $f: \mathbb{N} \mapsto \mathbb{N}$.
Now replace $s_1$ with $s_2$ by indexing in $s_1$ using $s_1$: $$s_2=(1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37,\ldots) \;.$$ So we take the 1st, 3rd, 5th, ... elements of $s_1$ to form $s_2$. To construct $s_3$, index into $s_2$ using $s_2$: take the 1st, 5th, 9th, ... elements of $s_2$, i.e., $$s_3=(1, 17, 33, 49, 65, 81, 97, 113, 129, 145,\ldots) \;.$$ Note that, e.g., the 2nd element of $s_3$ is not $f^3(2) = 9$, but rather $f^2( f^2( 2)) = f^4(2) = 17$. Iterating once more we reach $$s_4=(1, 257, 513, 769, 1025, 1281, 1537, 1793, 2049, 2305,\ldots)\;. $$ Here, e.g., the 2nd element of $s_4$ is $f^8(2)=256 \cdot 2 - 255 = 257$.
Several questions:
Q1. For which starting sequences $s$ does this process lead to a fixed sequence, $s_k = s_{k+1}$? Certainly it does if $s$ represents the identity: $s_1=(1,2,3,4,5,\ldots)$. Are there any other fixed sequences?
Q2. For which starting sequences $s$ does this process lead to a cycle among the sequences, $s_k = s_{k+m}$, $m>1$? And can the length of such a cycle be predicted from the structure of the starting sequence?
Q3. What is the expected behavior under iteration of a "typical" (random?) starting injection $s$, under any reasonable sense of "typical"?
I feel certain this has all been studied before, and I am just not phrasing it in an easily recognizable manner. I would appreciate pointers—Thanks!


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